At 8:32 AM on Wednesday July 16 1969, Apollo 11, tipped with its command ship Columbia, exploded off Launch Pad 39A for the deep blue skies east of Cape Kennedy. By evening Sunday July 20th, Columbia's companion ship Eagle took what we now know was a hair-raising plummet to the surface of the moon for a smooth & in-the-nick-of-time touchdown. Just before midnight "Sun-Day", Apollo Astronaut Neil Armstrong lumbered down the nine steps of the Eagle LEM's ladder to take his historic "...one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind" onto the surface of the Moon. Joined some 20 minutes later by Buzz Aldrin, the first two "Planenauts" wobbled about the surface of the moon, collected rock samples, set up experiments, and sent back pictures of all of this via a grainy TV signal to the Earth. About an hour and a half later, on "Moon-Day" the 21st, the two Astronauts returned in reverse order to the Eagle.

In November of 1995, I went looking for sound files of this historic mission at the NASA website, and found they only had five. I decided to rectify the lack by creating this wav file collection, since become not only NASA's official sound files of this event -- they've become (thanks to CICA/Winsite) the most archived & mirrored soundfiles on the entire internet, with so many hundreds of websites archiving them in nearly every country in the world that I gave up trying to count them after 300. These wavs are intended as an audio record of that mission; from Lift Off to Splash Down, these 132 files document not only the highlights of the mission -- they cover practically everything the Astronauts did of any importance during their nearly 90 minutes on the Lunar Surface. For ease of access, I chronologically named all those wavs which record an event on the Lunar Surface, so that they may be played in the order they occured in.

*Note: This page is my testimonial to all the dedicated men and women who have contributed their time and effort to the manned space program effort, from the early days of the Civilian Space Agency right up to the latest NASA Shuttle Missions. Space is indeed man's destiny, and we all owe a great deal to all those who have worked, and are continuing to work, towards meeting that destiny. This page is for them, that their achievements may not be forgotten, and to do them the honor they so richly deserve.

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